“SciKits” (short for SciPy Toolkits)
are add-on packages for SciPy, hosted and developed separately and
independently from the main SciPy distribution.

“Allel” (Greek ἀλλήλ) is the root of the word
“allele” short for “allelomorph”, a
word coined by William Bateson to mean variant forms of a gene. Today we use
“allele” to mean any of the variant forms found at a site of genetic variation,
such as the different nucleotides observed at a single nucleotide polymorphism
(SNP).

This is academic software, written in the cracks of free time between other commitments, by people
who are often learning as we code. We greatly appreciate bug reports, pull requests, and any other
feedback or advice. If you do find a bug, we’ll do our best to fix it, but apologies in advance if
we are not able to respond quickly. If you are doing any serious work with this package, please do
not expect everything to work perfectly first time or be 100% correct. Treat everything with a
healthy dose of suspicion, and don’t be afraid to dive into the source code if you have to. Pull
requests are always welcome.